If Rihanna’s Lyrics Were About Lebanon

Remember when we imagined how Drake’s lyrics could be interpreted if they were about Lebanon? BadGalRiri now. Here’s what we imagine Rihanna’s lyrics would mean if they were about life in The Lebanon.

1. When your mom asks you where you’re going, with who, and what time you’ll be home every time you leave the house – even at 8 AM, she asks ‘Wein ray7a?’ And you say:

2. When Lebanon finally got a president, abolished the Medieval ‘Marry the Rapist Law’ and passed an Animal welfare law:

3. When the elevator hasn’t been working all day, but you finally hear the generator turn on and you know it started working again

4. When you’re at the beach and your mom warned you to put on sunscreen, but you told her not to tell you what to do because you’re a grown adult – and now you’re burning but don’t want her to know she was right

5. When you find yourself daydreaming about shawarma from Barbar

6. When your friend tells you they’re on their way to pick you up, but you know they’re still only now about to get in the shower, but it’s OK because you still need to shower too

7. When you find the perfect place to park in Gemmayze but then you realize that there’s a bike blocking you from being able to park there

8. When the delivery guy apologizes because he doesn’t have change, which is convenient for him because the change was only 3,000 LL and now, by default, it has become his tip

9. When you’re on your way home from work stuck in rush hour traffic, and you know there’s at least another hour to go

10. When you’re telling your friend about how you and your ex got back together after SkyBar on Saturday and she says, “Wait, what did he say exactly?”

11. When you see Smoking Bun is still open after your drunken debauchery in Mar Mikhael

12. When you had a wild night out but still show up for work the next day and your friends ask you how you did it

13. When you see your shower after a long day of sweating in the last of Beirut’s summer heat

14. When you stop at a red light and a convoy of cars behind you starts honking at you like you murdered their families

15. When it’s the fourth of the month and you still haven’t been given your salary, so you go to the HR like

16. When you see your ex with someone less attractive than you, waiting at the back of the line to get into AHM

17. When the weather starts changing and you’re not sure if you should bring your winter clothes out yet or not

18. When you’re starving at work and your colleague brings you a man’oushe

19. When you finally get to happy hour drinks in Hamra after work, and you look at your vodka soda like

20. And then you finally get home, and your mom looks at you like